Automobile-goggles.



J U. BARR.

AUTOMOBILE GOGGLES.

APPLICATION FILED 001220, 1911.

1,()67,793, Patented July 22,1913.

To all whom t may concern UNITED sTATEs y PATENT oEEIoE.

IOHN' U. BARR, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

AUTOMOBILE-GOGGLES.

'Speccation of Letters Patent.

` Patented July 22,1913.

Applicationled October 20,l 1911. Serial No. 655,668.

Be it known that I, JoHN U. BARR, a citizen of the `United States, residing at New York city, New York, have invented certain new andv useful Improvements in Automobile-Goggles,.of which the following is a clear, full, and exact description;

The object of this invention is to provide an improved form of goggle for automobile l of strong lights.

or. similai` outdoor use, where the user rides either in the s un or at times before the glare It will be recognized by all who have motored at night that on approaching a car fitted with the powerful search lights on each side, one is dazzled and blinded by the illumination 4of the approaching car to such an extent that one has great diliiculty in keeping his proper position in the road with relation to stones, stumps, trees, fences and gutters. y

In carrying out this invention I provide goggles with the ordinary strap, rims Iand eye protecting leathers, and inthe rims I provide glasses, part of which arecolored to prevent the admission of the dazzling lightfto the eye, so that the eye may look at an approaching machine or at the sun,

and vother parts of. the glasso-r glasses are clear and transparent, as is ordinary in glasses.

The scope of my invention will be pointed out in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings z-Figure 1 vis a face view of a portion of automobile goggles equipped with my invention.` Fig. 2

is a vertical sectional'view, the section being taken on a line 2 2 in Fig. 1.

As shown in the drawings, 3 isa hinge connecting the eye shield portions 1 and 2.

. 4 and 5 are thetwo ends of' the strap for securing the goggles to the head.

In each rim on each side of the hinge I mount a glass, which is of two thicknesses, andwlnch 1s darkened or colored, so that the thicker Vpart of the glass permits one to look therethrough at the bright light, while the remaining part or thinner part is comparatively clear, that one may look therethrough `at all times as in ordinary goggles. As shown in Figs. 1 and 2, I use a single cut-out as at 8 to torm a channel. As shown in the drawings, the glass itself is formed tinted or colored throughout, so that by cutting the glass, as is shown in the'cross-sectional view, enough of the glass can be removed to give the apparent impression rof clearn'ess at that point so as to render that portion more transparent to light than the rest of the glass.

I claim :is my invention:

The herein described goggles consisting of a pair of eye shields and a pair of glasses set therein, each glass of one piece having portions thereof of different thicknesses and colored, whereby one portion is rendered substantially clear and t-he other more or less clouded as and for the purposes described.

Signed at New York city, New7 York, this 17th day of October, 1911.

JOHN u. BARE.

Witnesses:

MABEI. DITTENHOEEER, FRED FRANCIS WEISS. 

